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Old 01-23-2009, 08:47 AM
 
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Can anyone tell me where to find a list of fish which are considered sustainable, and which are overfished or endangered?

I found this very helpful info on European and North Atlantic fish - but haven't found a comprehensive list for the US.

Anyone know of a list for sustainable fish caught in the USA and also imported here from overseas?

Guide: Which fish to avoid and what you can eat instead | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Fish to Eat (http://www.fishonline.org/advice/eat/?item=6 - broken link)

Thanks!
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Old 06-29-2013, 01:17 AM
 
Location: Minnesota
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Most over-fished, so I hear, is the bluefin tuna. Numbers have been reduced by 90 percent. Albacore is much better managed. Alaskan pollock is pretty abundant, but mostly because some of the biggest fish nuts in the world don't clamor for it. Top picks: Safe, sustainable fish | MNN - Mother Nature Network
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Old 06-29-2013, 01:49 AM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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Tilapia is supposed to be the most sustainable fish. It's a freshwater fish and has no intrinsic flavor whatsoever. I'll eat tofu before I'll eat tilapia - heck, I'll eat fried catfish fins (which are pretty good, by the way) before I'll eat tilapia.
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Old 06-29-2013, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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Tilapia is supposed to be the most sustainable fish. It's a freshwater fish and has no intrinsic flavor whatsoever. I'll eat tofu before I'll eat tilapia - heck, I'll eat fried catfish fins (which are pretty good, by the way) before I'll eat tilapia.
now that is really funny!! You made my morning...

I am not a huge tilapia lover, it is pretty flavorless, but it is cheap and is healthy. We do have it about once a month. We get it at Sam's crusted in whatever, so it has a little flavor and I am sure would be better that cat fish fins.
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Old 06-29-2013, 11:02 AM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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This is a good question and something worth investigating, if we could find a truly legit study that doesn't have an agenda attached to it. I think, because of so many fish farms, probably there are not that many over fished, but raised in a pond, on a fish farm isn't the same as putting that pole in the water and fishing for that wonderful fresh trout.
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Old 06-29-2013, 11:46 AM
 
Location: North Idaho
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Look at the prices. If it is really expensive, it is over-fished and supply is low. You aren't paying $22 a pound for swordfish because they are hauing in 5,000 tons every day for 365 days a year. You oay $22 a pound because there isn't much of it available.

Talapia makes a great fresh tuna salad sandwich, but I won't buy it because I can't find any that does not come from China and I don't buy food from China.
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Old 06-29-2013, 12:17 PM
 
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Look at the prices. If it is really expensive, it is over-fished and supply is low. You aren't paying $22 a pound for swordfish because they are hauing in 5,000 tons every day for 365 days a year. You oay $22 a pound because there isn't much of it available.

Talapia makes a great fresh tuna salad sandwich, but I won't buy it because I can't find any that does not come from China and I don't buy food from China.
Hmm -- if I get tilapia, I buy it from the asian grocery stores in my area and they have it live swimming in tanks. Doesn't get much fresher than that.

Most saltwater fish is overfished and very difficult to farm successfully, and certainly not to any great size. Sad but true. However, fresh mussels are almost always sustainably raised -- they are saltwater, but since they attach themselves to pilings/poles, they can be "farmed" in saltwater rivers, bays and estuaries and without need to use antibiotics or worries about fish sludge buildup like you get in pond farmed fishes. Because of that, it's one of the few seafoods that I will eat with any regularity.
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Old 06-29-2013, 05:06 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles>Little Rock>Houston>Little Rock
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I really don't like tilapia nor any other fresh water fish. I like ocean fish like halibut, cod, orange roughy, tuna, swordfish and so on. I understand that orange roughy is slow growing and late to mature making it extremely over-fished.
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Old 06-29-2013, 05:08 PM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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Can't stand tilapia or catfish.

Orange roughy was an excellent fish that was overfished and is now unobtainable.
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Old 06-29-2013, 05:34 PM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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...Orange roughy was an excellent fish that was overfished and is now unobtainable.
They should have kept its original name, Slimehead, and fewer people would have eaten it.
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